UK needs a real general strike to bring down Tories and bring in Workers...
THE DEEPENING crisis of British capitalism sees the UK ruling class at least 100 times more interested in provoking regime change in Russia through...
Workers strikes hit the Sarkozy regime
FIRST of all the French electorate gave the right wing Sarkozy regime a bloody nose, and now yesterday’s general strike by the public sector...
Stop Tory drive to war in Libya with a general strike
THE imperialist war drums are beating with a vengeance as advanced preparations for a direct military intervention into Libya by Britain, Italy, France and...
UK Workers Are Threatened By Covid-19 Mutations – Trade Unions Must Bring Down Tories...
HOSPITALS in the south of England say they have seen a ‘real rise in pressure’ as the number of Covid patients needing treatment rapidly...
Syrian opposition demands a no-fly zone!
THE announcement that the western and Saudi-Qatari backed ‘opposition’ in Syria is no longer committed to the UN Security Council-backed Annan ceasefire comes as...
Balls Agrees With The Tories!
THE Labour shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, engaged in a nauseating charade on Wednesday of verbally attacking his Tory opposite number whilst at the same...
Macron only scrapes a win thanks to abstentions and anti-Le Pen votes!
THE RESULT of the French presidential election on Sunday saw the right-wing Emmanuel Macron winning with 58.54% of the vote, beating the leader of...
Behind Brown’s pre-election Budget
THE Budget, presented by Chancellor Alistair Darling last Wednesday, was clearly part of Brown’s re-election campaign. In three months time, after the general election,...
Defend the NHS with a general strike! Nationalise the pharmaceutical industry!
ONE in five new drugs will be rationed on the NHS under new plans to ‘save the health service money.’ This is the latest...
Students To Fight Closure Of University Of London Union!
SENIOR academics confirmed yesterday that they are set to shut down the University of London Union, recommending that ‘ULU in its current form ceases’...
Orwell’s 1984 is small fry compared to Facebook and Cambridge Analytica in 2018!
AN ACADEMIC who created an app which ‘harvested’ data from 50 million people now says he has been made ‘a scapegoat’ for the scandal...
Chilcot won’t rule on Iraq war legality
CHILCOT opened his report of his inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war yesterday by stating that it was not the job of his very...
Occupy Vauxhall and Peugeot to defend jobs
LAST May, MG Rover was closed without a struggle. Last month the closure of Peugeot was announced and this week we have been told...
CRISIS DEEPENING – as production and the pound fall!
UK industrial output collapsed in August, unexpectedly as far as the bourgeoisie was concerned, destroying any remaining thoughts of green shoots of recovery. Bourgeois...
Permanent wage-cutting and zero-hour contracts are all that capitalism has to offer
THE Office for National Statistics said the unemployment rate has fallen to 6.4%, down from 6.5% in May, with the number of people unemployed...
Palestinian revolution on the march to Jerusalem!
THE Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has said that the Palestinians are determined to seek recognition of a Palestinian state from the United Nations...
UK death squads in the north – a warning for today
LAST night’s Panorama programme, entitled ‘Britain’s Secret Terror Force’, threw yet more light on the murderous activities of the British state in its war...
Police provocateurs at large
GREEN party MP Caroline Lucas has called for a parliamentary inquiry into the case of an undercover police officer and his possible involvement in...
Coronavirus sparks biggest crash since 2007/8 threatening to derail Trump and sink the Johnson...
CORONAVIRUS is spreading around the world, sparking a global economic collapse. For seven days in a row financial markets have fallen. The crisis has...
The housing crisis intensifies as police and bailiffs clear estates for the benefit of...
THE housing crisis in the UK has reached explosion point. There is no new council housing being built, rents are being driven sky-high, while housing...
Hunt steps up war on NHS
THE Tory drive against doctors and health workers throughout the NHS was reaffirmed last week when re-appointed health secretary Jeremy Hunt confirmed that GPs...
TUC Congress must call a general strike to support the State of Palestine
WHILE welcoming the limited ‘humanitarian pause’ in the Gaza war to allow the polio vaccination of young Gazan children by the World Health Organisation...
Tory-Lib Dem Budget hitting the poor hardest – IFS report
WORKING class families and pensioners are being hit hardest by Chancellor George Osborne’s Emergency Budget. This is the key finding from a study by the...
Organise a general strike to kick out the Tory-LibDem regime
EVERYONE has had the chance to work out what the Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition government’s Comprehensive Spending Review means, with £81bn in cuts hitting jobs...
King Abdullah Of Jordan Calls For Immediate End To Israeli Aggression!
KING Abdullah II of Jordan warned yesterday against the catastrophic repercussions of the ongoing Israeli destruction of Gaza, emphasising the urgent need to address...
Make the TUC call a general strike now to boot out the Tories and...
RAIL, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) members will be joined by many other trade unionists today at 7.00am and on Saturday 26th March at...
Sack the government not doctors and nurses
A REPORT leaked this weekend spells out exactly how the Tory-led coalition means to destroy completely the National Health Service and is preparing to...
Trade unions must act over NHS crisis by organising a general strike
HOSPITALS across the country are already running close to 100% bed occupancy and the full effects of winter haven’t even started to impact on...
TGWU stops BAA strike while Virgin says get other jobs!
THE TGWU leadership, (now sheltering under the Unite label) has once again dropped a decision by its members to take strike action to...
Universities in crisis – courses slashed, thousands to be sacked and fees to soar!
UNIVERSITIES are being hit hard by the capitalist crisis with thousands of jobs and courses going, and with students facing a lifting of the...
Stop the NHS being privatised! Defend funds for services – don’t use them for...
The abolition of NHS England by merging it with the Department of Health, announced by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Thursday, is the...
Britain Is Ripe For Socialist Revolution
THE British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) quarterly report has just discovered a situation that every worker and every shopper has been acquainted with for...
Defend North Korea Against Imperialist Attack!
THE US and its South Korean puppets are set to begin their largest ever joint military exercises amid the high tensions that they have...
Cameron’s beat, beat, and beat again ruling class morality!
THE Tory-led coalition's savage attack on welfare claimants and the inevitable poverty and destitution they have caused for millions of working class families ...
French Government Passes Pensions ‘Reforms’ Without A Vote!
THE French government has chosen the moment – when France, Europe and the world is obsessed by the coronavirus crisis – to launch a...
Currency War Prelude To Shooting War!
LEADERS of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank came out yesterday with dire warnings about the emerging ‘currency war’. Speaking on the eve...
Brown brings back Mandelson to fight the trade unions
WITH the financial storm clouds starting to burst around him, Prime Minister Brown has established with his cabinet reshuffle that he means every word...
Carter condemns Gaza blockade and urges talks with Hamas
EX-US president Jimmy Carter, who negotiated the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, yesterday called the Israeli blockade of Gaza ‘a crime’...
Greece headed for revolution!
THE situation for Greek capitalism has become so serious that Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos has demanded that Germany returns the Greek gold that...
BHS workers’ jobs and pensions destroyed as firm is looted!
THE decision on Thursday by the administrators to close all 163 BHS stores and throw 11,000 workers out of a job with immediate effect...
Inflation Now Out Of Control!
ACCORDING to the latest figures, factory input inflation – that is the increase in raw materials paid for by manufacturers – rose by a...
Labour’Shuts Out Black And Asian Masses
THE ‘biggest shake-up of the immigration system in 45 years’ got underway yesterday, according to the Brown government. The ‘shake-up’ is that the British ruling...
Leaked documents reveal a failed mass-murder machine
THE leaked 90,000 US Afghan war documents once again show – as did the My Lai mass killings of the Vietnamese people – the...
UK heading for ‘no deal crisis’ – Only answer is a socialist revolution!
THE MAY government on Tuesday defeated an attempt by 12 pro-EU Conservative MPs, supported by Labour EU Remainers, to destroy its revised post-Brexit trade...
TUC must call indefinite general strike to bring down coalition now!
TODAY’S meeting of the TUC general council must get off the fence and call for an immediate all-out, indefinite general strike to bring down...